NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
eoz
Feb 07, 2014Follower
Random disconnects.
I bought an R7000 about a week ago now. My other router kept going wonky on me, could not take any load for any amount of time and was generally a miserable experience. Now, for my problem with th...
aeg4373
Feb 21, 2014Aspirant
Have had this router since November 2013. Was fine at first but have the same issues the last 2 months. Have talked to tech support multiple times, they even sent me a new router. I have pinpointed it down to the buggy firmware. I have rolled back to the 1.0.1.22 firmware and that seems to be the most stable, but still get the occasional disconnects, but not as frequent with the newer firmware. Tried the latest FW 1.0.3 issued a couple days ago and that was by far the worst - wouldn't stay connected to the internet for more than 30 seconds before disconnecting, then reconnecting. Hopefully netgear gets their act together on this.